Instructional Video

British Library: Gender in 19th Century Britain

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Kathryn Hughes explores the repressive and often contradictory expectations of women in middle-class Victorian society while examining how women such as Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning managed to challenge those expectations. [7:39]

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional